It's time to set your reading free. Google eBooks is all about choice, so you can use any device you own to read any book, anywhere. books.google.com/ebooks
I agree with you about the e-book should be a fraction of the price of an actual book. I think that buying an e-book should save us money, not making a hole in our pockets!
Why don't you release a Made by Google ereader? It will be an awesome experience syncing my Google Play Books instead of doing all that confusing process with Adobe Digital Editions with other ereaders...
Or downloading and reading books off of Project Gutenberg. ^^ They have been collecting and offering (free of charge) public domain ebooks and other ebooks that have been freely given by their authors since 1971.
@Lennatron It's because I see digital publishing only as a "parallel" technology to put next to traditional books. E-books are great for PDFs and also for free or cheap publications. That's why I love my kindle. BUT if I had to choose (at almost the same price) between a digital and a physical book, for a number of reasons I'd choose the latter, first of all because it's an intrinsically better "device" for reading. E-books win for the quantity of material, traditional books for the quality ;)
@Marcel Gomez you... do realize that this comment is 2 years old, right? and that some of these comments are from 2013-2014, before the name change, right?
@Marcel Gomez ok you're probably right about that "lacking confidence" part, but my point still stands. responding with an emotional jab isn't going to hide the fact that not only are you VERY late to the party, but i also didn't ask to be notified for name changes on a service i don't even care about. edit: and as for that "why so defensive" part? defending your point is pretty much the entire point of an argument.
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I'm looking forward to hoping Google EBookstore for a long long time ago. Thanks to Larry Page and Sergi Burinn. Finally I have archived my dream in the long run.
Can I share the books I buy? So far that has been my biggest deterrent for me, the price of ebooks is similar to buying the actual book. But if no one else can read it then the price should be a fraction of the price of a paperback.
Just keep a word up to your mind while watching at this video ► Stopmotion. Incredible work! I didn't use those ebooks yet, but the video is amazing by itself.
Since eBooks and the devices to read them have been around now for a while... What is the benefit of the Google Books service if we already have a electronic library of books and can't upload them. This is the equivalent of setting up a new email account and not letting us send email to any of our existing contacts!
@Lennatron That's exactly why I got a Nook instead of a kindle. I prefer to be able to read ebooks I bought six years ago and read ones that have been around since 1971 (courtesy of Protect Gutenberg).
Kindle is the smart one for not using the standard book format and only allowing purchase of ebooks from Amazon and Amazon only. Google Ebooks isn't going to make a dent in their ebook sales one bit.
@crasherball I understand they need agreement with the publishers but has no publisher agreed to let them sell outside of the US? I can't even download their application in the iPad app store to use with public domain books. As much as I would rather not to be constrained to one bookstore with their proprietary format, Amazon sells worldwide almost all the books that I need.
Does it have to be connected to wifi or can you download a book if you are traveling to another country? Or can you download books in another country to be able to read them?
@yencidmusic and we are talking about google, the biggest internet company of our time... i think if there are a small number of companies that can launch a global product, one of (maybe the biggest one) is google...
@darcynog its not like they dont want to but they have make deals with publishers in every country first to be able to bring their books to their service.... and thats why they chose the USA first, because it is the country strongest customer-power
Here is a great book that I just got as an ebook on Amazon it's called "How to overcome fear, and start living fearless" the book is amazing check it out It's very life changing!
great video, very interesting. Now to be honest this will take a few decades to really take over, because people still like the feeling of having a book with pages but then again that's just now, even though I would prefer to have a book of real pages, that doesn't matter cause society changes and the future generations will grow up and prefer virtual books in the coming decades, so I think it'll work at that point.
9 years later, it seems that’s happened somewhat. I think traditional books are still in the public consciousness, but so are e-readers. They’re kind of equal right now.
If you are among the 95% of the world population not living in the US, the closest you can get to the experience described by the video is buying ebooks from Amazon and reading them anywhere with the iPad, the Samsung Galaxy, a mobile phone, a PC or Mac. Most ebook sellers, Barnes & Noble, Apple and Google included, do not seem to realize that there is revenue to be made in Europe, Asia, the entire Americas and elsewhere.
This video seems like a copy of apple advertisements, using short little sentences of 12 works or less, with light 'acoustic' throwaway music in the background and cute colorful graphics. Google must have figured it worked well for Apple, so they would just stick with that format. SUCH ORIGINALITY!
@dragersolid why do people always say this? Its JUST starting right now! If probably will be expanding around the world but not many companies launch world wide
Too bad this doesn't even exist. So much for 'choice'. Google Play Books doesn't even let you import ebooks you already own. So much for syncing and storing 'all' your books. Expected more openness from Google. Unfortunately this is probably a restriction Google agreed to in order to secure contracts with publishers..
@yencidmusic this is an observation that I'm seeing in many so say global internet companies... a small example iTunes don't work in many countries around the world... how many years people need to wait for apple ? many applications in facebook has millions of users outside US. but there is no localization for any of them... that's a problem, and i think it is a big big problem... this is a sickness of many global internet companies... they all forget what global means...
Traditional Books are still a better technology, these e-books are an interesting alternative but they will never replace real books, simply because the overall reading experience is worse. I have a Kindle 3 and I love it btw ;)
its my birthday tommoro and i dont know wat to get a ipad or a ebook kindle btw im going to be 12 so at my age i dont know wat to get could someone help
Ah AAH just wonderful , Just saw the EBook in Google,I am a book worm so now i can store & read as & when I want to my heart content.Do any body know which are the Languages the EBooks Available ? Blessings & Happy XMas to all my dear friends.Love A.N.
